bookcurios Chapter 1360 Father and Son Team Up
Chapter 1360 Father and Son Team Up
It's said that the mysterious person brought a massive army, and the attack will be utterly overwhelming...
Therefore, their plan was still to defend the capital and wait for the army to arrive.
I'll go and get back a hundredfold, a thousandfold, all the suffering and pain I endured before...
Inside the Ust-i Fortress.
Han Da quickly got into character and started giving commands.
Actually, he hadn't dared to attack before because of the robots on the other side.
Now those robots are no longer a threat, and he has no fear of them at all.
At this moment, Xiao Ce led Xiao Yuanwang to rest inside the mecha. The reason was simple: the mecha was far more comfortable than the military tents outside...
At this moment, Xiao Yuanwang was in his own mecha, and two people were chatting with him on the local area network established by Lingxu, imparting their experience to him!
"Look into the distance, can you see those prominent towers and sturdy bunkers on the fortress? Those 'iron guys' are hidden behind them. Remember, our mission is not to charge, but to 'hunt'."
His fingers swept across the complex control panel, bringing up the aiming interface for the Thunderstorm Energy Sniper Cannon, a long, menacing-looking weapon that shimmered with a ghostly blue light extending from the back of the mech.
High-magnification optical images were clearly projected into Xiao Yuanwang's field of vision.
"Yes! Hunting! Like hunting a cunning snow fox!"
Five-year-old Xiao Yuanwang's voice was still childish, yet it revealed a focus and excitement beyond his years; his comprehension was truly remarkable...
“Very good.” A hint of approval flashed in Xiao Ce’s eyes. “Good. Once the battle begins, lock onto them. Our cannons can destroy their core in one shot. But remember, we only have one chance. The best opportunity is when they peek out to attack Uncle Wei’s planes. Before that, we absolutely, absolutely cannot reveal our position and intentions. The frontal attack is left to Marshal Han and Marshal Wei.”
"Look from afar and you'll understand! Hide like a shadow, and then... bang!"
Xiao Yuanwang nodded vigorously, his eyes fixed on the crosshairs in the sniper scope. His focused expression made him look like a seasoned hunter, not a five-year-old child.
Upon hearing Xiao Yuanwang's words, Xiao Ce smiled, then gave a thumbs-up and said, "He's a clever one..."
At that very moment, inside the central command tent, Han Da, draped in a cloak, stared intently at the sand table. Generals Wei Wuji, Batur, and others stood solemnly on either side.
"The time has come." Han Da's voice was resolute. "Attack according to the established strategy!"
The messengers then dispersed, and a short while later, a whooshing sound rang out...!
The piercing bugle call tore through the cold night sky!
Almost simultaneously, the earth began to tremble...
The Allied ground forces, like awakened steel behemoths, launched an overwhelming assault on Don Fort under the guidance of searchlights.
At the forefront were armored vehicles with added armor, their engines roaring as their tracks crushed the ice; behind them were infantry phalanxes advancing like a forest, their semi-automatic rifles with bayonets fixed, gleaming coldly in the snow; heavy machine gun positions spewed long tongues of fire, raining bullets down on the city walls, suppressing any suicide soldiers who tried to peek out.
"Air Force takeoff!"
Wei Wuji's orders were simple and clear.
The glider bombers and attack aircraft that had been waiting at the rear airfield emitted a piercing shriek as they soared into the leaden sky one after another, forming a dense formation like a flock of eagles ready to devour their prey, and swooped down toward Don River Fortress.
A signal flare that illuminated the night as if it were daytime hovered in the air...
The soldiers on the city wall let out desperate and fanatical howls, and logs, stones, and boiling molten gold were frantically pushed down the city wall. Archers fired arrows blindly in the gaps between heavy machine gun fire.
But what truly made the Allied frontline commanders uneasy was the sudden appearance of three blinding blue lights deep within the fortress!
coming!
Three man-made robots sped out from behind the pre-designated air-raid shelters like ghosts, their movements so swift that they left afterimages. Their goal was clear: to hit the iron birds in the sky!
A deadly energy beam is rapidly charging, its eerie blue light foreshadowing destruction!
If hit, the fragile glider will instantly turn into a fireball.
However, at that critical moment!
"Bang...!"
A deep, deafening roar, imbued with destructive power, did not come from the fortress, but from the seemingly silent snow-covered hill behind the allied forces!
A thick, blue-white electric arc beam tore through the air at a speed beyond the reach of sight, hitting with unparalleled precision the connection between the head and torso of one of the simulated humanoids that had just emerged from its bunker and whose muzzle glow was at its brightest!
Xiao Ce had already anticipated this, but this was the first time he had used this type of cannon...
This was completely beyond his imagination...
Heaven was still on his side; if he hadn't discovered this hidden armory, he would have been tortured to death by these people...
"Boom!"
A violent explosion lit up the city wall. The upper body of the android was instantly torn apart by the violent energy. Metal fragments and internal pipes scattered like fireworks. The smoking remains crashed to the ground, and the energy core was completely annihilated.
The first shot was fired by Xiao Ce!
The timing, the angle, the precision—it's all impeccable!
But almost half a breath after Xiao Ce fired the shot, and before the first robot's explosion had even fully erupted!
"Boom! Bang!"
A second, more condensed, and seemingly faster blue-white beam of light followed immediately!
It fired from a more cunning flank angle, its target not the second robot that had just been alerted and was trying to retreat to its cover, but the key energy transmission joint that supported its legs, which it had exposed to avoid Xiao Ce's fire!
"Crack! Hiss!" The ear-piercing sounds of metal breaking and energy leakage rang out. The second android's leg joint was precisely pierced and detonated by the beam of light, the entire mechanical leg was blown off, and the unbalanced body staggered and tilted, exposing the vulnerable energy core area in its chest and abdomen!
"Father! It's fallen!"
Xiao Yuanwang's childish yet excited shout rang out in Xiao Ce's channel.
I initially thought Xiao Yuanwang would have some psychological burden, but it seems Xiao Ce was just overthinking things...
"Good boy!"
Xiao Ce was amazed, but his hands did not stop moving; he had already made slight adjustments to the muzzle of his cannon.
"Finish it off!" he calmly ordered, while simultaneously locking onto the third robot, which was momentarily confused due to the successive attacks on its companions.
"Bang!" Xiao Ce fired his second shot, aimed at the core of the third robot.
"Bang!" Almost overlapping with another loud bang, Xiao Yuanwang's second shot arrived, aimed at the exposed core of the fallen second robot!
boom! boom!
Two even larger fireballs erupted violently from the top of Don Fortress!
Molten metal splattered, scorching the surrounding assassins and stone walls.
The three "messengers of the gods," which Shahar and the defenders regarded as their last hope, were completely destroyed in less than five seconds by a thunderbolt from an unknown direction, turning them into three piles of smoking scrap metal!
The soldiers on the city wall were completely stunned; their fervent fighting spirit was instantly replaced by boundless fear and bewilderment.
Such an invincible divine messenger... just like that, gone? Instantly annihilated by an unseen, terrifying force?
Meanwhile, Xiao Ce and Xiao Yuanwang effortlessly destroyed the robots, and then, as previously agreed...
They immediately lit a signal flare.
The signal flare meant that the robots had been eliminated.
Of course, Xiao Ce didn't do this on his own; he passed Lingxu's test.
Lingxu successfully completed the binding process with the Hidden Dragon Armory, and Xiao Ce could clearly sense that he had become even more powerful...
The soldiers here saw these signal flares.
Their morale soared to its peak...
"Those damn robots are dead! Kill them!"
The ground troops roared in fury, and the tide of their charge surged forward without any further resistance.
"Target cleared! All bombers, drop bombs as planned! Free attack!"
Wei Wuji's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement.
Without the threat of the simulated humans, the gliders had no more scruples and swooped down, unleashing high-explosive and incendiary bombs like hail on the city walls and inside the fortress.
Violent explosions continued unabated, flames soared into the sky, and thick smoke billowed.
Of course, they didn't deploy many fighter jets this time, because Handa judged that the opposing garrison was also small...
Having lost their only support, the fierce warriors left behind by Shahar were rendered utterly powerless by overwhelming firepower and technological superiority.
The crossfire of heavy machine guns wove a web of death, mowing down hordes of the probing suicide soldiers; mortar shells landed precisely in densely packed areas; armored vehicles fired at close range, and machine guns blasted the heavy wooden fortress gates into countless fragments.
Their federal infantry surged through the breach like a tidal wave, their gleaming bayonets flashing coldly in the firelight as they engaged in close-quarters combat.
Inside the fortress, the remaining suicide soldiers tried to hold out against the enemy by clinging to the building. Some even desperately set fire to the stored food and supplies, attempting to perish with the fortress.
But this did nothing but create chaos and smoke, hastening their demise.
Under Han Da's decisive command, each assault team, under the cover of armored vehicles, cleared out the remaining enemy from house to house and alley to alley.
The battle began at dawn, but by midday, the gunfire and explosions inside the fortress had become sporadic.
When the last stronghold of resistance was wiped out, a battle flag of the East Asian Federation was raised on the highest tower of Don River Fortress, fluttering in the cold wind, and the entire battlefield erupted in cheers like a tsunami.
Those individuals were truly tenacious...
The fortress gates opened wide, and Han Da, Wei Wuji, and others rode into the fortress, which was filled with the smell of gunpowder and blood.
Looking at the battlefield, which was devastated but now completely under control, Han Da's face showed both the satisfaction of victory and a hint of solemnity.
He knew that Shahar had already led the remaining robots to their final lair: the Slavic capital fortress. The real battle was yet to come.
"Reporting to the Marshal, Don River Fortress has been captured! The remaining enemy forces have been wiped out, with no survivors. Our casualties... are less than one hundred!" the messenger reported excitedly.
Handa nodded: "These must be the assassins Shahar planted here..."
At this moment, Xiao Ce and Xiao Yuanwang's two mechs had also arrived.
After the two of them came out of the mecha, Han Da reported to Xiao Ce.
Xiao Ce was not surprised after hearing this, after all, the problem was that they couldn't win in such a situation.
Han Da said to Xiao Ce, "Your Highness, next, we plan to follow the example of that Ust Castle and plant explosives inside... So that when we retreat, we can blow them up while they're stationed there... send them all flying into the sky..."
After hearing Han Da's words, Xiao Ce smiled, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Good! That's a good idea..."
Then Xiao Ce said to Han Da, "How do you know we'll retreat? Instead of taking it all in one fell swoop? Those Slavic countries..."
Hearing Xiao Ce's words, Han Da awkwardly said to him, "Your Highness, I don't mean to boost their morale while diminishing our own... it's just that, in this situation, we must think about a way out... and, clearly, their reinforcements haven't arrived..."
"If their reinforcements arrive in this situation, I..."
Xiao Ce had only meant it as a joke, but seeing that Han Da took it seriously, he smiled and said, "Han Da, don't be nervous, I was just joking with you..."
After hearing Xiao Ce's words, Han Da gave an awkward smile: "Your Highness, but... if a fight really breaks out, won't all of us just become waste?"
Xiao Ce said to Han Da, "Not really. We took out a whole batch of equipment from the armory—weapons and exoskeletons—enough to equip an army of ten thousand. I didn't tell you yesterday..."
"So, Handa, send someone you trust to select an army of ten thousand men... and have them train with those weapons and equipment... Although there are still mechs in that Hidden Dragon Armory, our current technology is far from capable of producing such mechs."
"Simply put... these pieces of equipment are becoming increasingly rare. I have a feeling we'll face an unknown enemy and unknown fears... we need to consider redundancy with these pieces of equipment..."
Han Da nodded: "So, Your Highness, you mean that in the future, mechs will still be for support, and we soldiers wielding those energy weapons will remain the primary force..."
Xiao Ce nodded: "That's right! Let's take a look at their hand first. We can't just play our royal flush because they played a minor one..."
Han Da had played the Dou Dizhu game invented by Xiao Ce, so he could understand what Xiao Ce was saying...
Han Dadian: "Then, Your Highness, shall we go first..."
Xiao Ce said to Han Da, "Now, Night Cat and I are following you, but we'll still be in a supporting role. I think it's because some Iron Man teams that were previously hiding here, or even hidden in various East Asian countries, are converging on this side. So, I guess..."